James Pinkerton is a Houston Chronicle reporter assigned to cover police administration and criminal justice issues. His other assignments for the Chronicle have included covering immigration and running a news bureau in the Rio...

James Pinkerton is a Houston Chronicle reporter assigned to cover police administration and criminal justice issues. His other assignments for the Chronicle have included covering immigration and running a news bureau in the Rio Grande Valley. During decades of daily newspaper experience, he has worked for the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the Austin American Statesman and the Brownsville Herald.

Awards & Recognition

James Pinkerton is a graduate of the University of Texas-at Austin school of communication, and has covered assignments around the state, Mexico, Central America, Kuwait and Iraq. He has won several news awards, including the Associated Press Star Reporter of the Year for exposing pervasive corruption in government training programs in the Rio Grande Valley.